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With Santa on a budget, prices are key for toy sellers

Oct. 5, 2009
NEW YORK -- Santa's on a budget this year. Toy retailers and makers plan to make the best of it by offering more deals and cut-price versions of more expensive toys that they hope will spur parents to spend even if they're scrimping elsewhere. Two influential lists of expected hot holiday toys...
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Tor retailers begin price wars

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What's hot and what's not in kids' toys

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'KB Toys at Sears' expands to 600 stores

HOFFMAN ESTATES, Ill., Oct. 8 (UPI) -- KB Toys and Sears, Roebuck and Co. will extend a relationship initiated two years ago by expanding the "KB Toys at Sears" concept to 600 U.S. Sears stores.

Retro toys big, as is 'Swan Lake' Barbie

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Lori Anne Madison, 6, competes in Scripps National Spelling Bee
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Lori Anne Madison, 6, of Woodbridge, Virginia, spells out the letters in her word as she competes during the opening round of the Scripps National Spelling Bee, May 30, 2012, in National Harbor, Maryland. Madison, the youngest known qualifier in the history of the contest, correctly spelled the word "dirigible*", a lighter-than-air aircraft, to advance. UPI/Mike Theiler